Boiling

tact that's what you want if i had been chosen to represent the swiss people in this affair i am not saying i ought to have been mind you i merely say if i had been i should have acted rather after the following fashion walking firmly but not defiantly into the tyrant's presence i should have broken the ice with some pleasant remark about the weather the conversation once started the rest would have been easy i should have said that i hoped his excellency had enjoyed a good dinner once on the subject of food and it would have been the simplest of tasks to show him how unnecessary taxes on food were and the whole affair would have been pleasantly settled while you waited do not imply that the swiss people would have done better to have chosen me as their representative i merely say that this is how i should have acted had they done so and arnold of sewa twirled his mustache and looked offended his friends instantly suggested that they should be allowed to try where the other three had failed and the rest of the crowd beginning to hope once more took up the cry the result was that the visitors bell of the palace was rung for the second time arnold of sewa went in and the door was banged behind him five minutes later he came out sucking the first finger of his left hand no he said it can't be done the tyrant has convinced me i knew he would said arnold of melchthal "'Then I think you might have warned me,' snapped Arnold of Sewa, dancing with the pain of his burnt finger.

"'Was it hot?' "'Boiling.

Ah!' "'Then he really won't let us off the taxes?' asked the crowd in disappointed voices.

"'No.' "'Then the long and short of it is,' said Walter first, drawing a deep breath, "'that we must rebel.' "'Rebel!' cried everybody.

He had a number of accidents in his life.

And tell us the story of the first one, the boiling water one.

So the Boiling Water, he was a student at King's College, which later became Columbia University.

And he was younger than a college student would be today.

People started college earlier then, but also he was a very precocious student.

Writing in 1752, Bishop Spangenberg says of a colony for which he was seeking lands in North Carolina, they will require salt and other necessaries which they can either manufacture or raise.

Either they must go to Charleston, which is 300 miles distant, or else they must go to Boiling's Point on a branch of the James and is also 300 miles from here.

or else they must go down the Roanoke, I know not how many miles, where salt is brought up from the Cape Fear.

This may serve as a typical illustration.

What differentiates these cooking methods is the temperature of the water in which they're cooked.

Boiling, of course, is, well, let's go to Fahrenheit for everybody that's listening to this show.

212 degrees at sea level.

We can go into that if you want.

That's a culinary crime scene.

Boiling does two terrible things to a brussels sprout.

First, It breaks down the glucosinolates and releases hydrogen sulfide.

That's the sulfurous smell people associate with overcooked cruciferous vegetables.

Yo, we need a tactical hour-long session of boiling.

What? The last E into melee range of Mundo? Bro!

Boiling is harsh, though, bro.

Like, for me, that's a visual image.

Hey, hey, hey, hey, listen.

Um, so this week's fact check comes from Rory, who sent in, uh... sent this in, this very straightforward statement.

"Boiling water freezes faster than room temperature water.

Go well, sweet peas."

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